By Mariah Lawrence. There is magic in the thick blue New England sea.
Reckless
By Maggie Jones. Motherhood wasn’t in my plan book.
Morning Start
By Erika Peterman. A photo slideshow from a morning spent with an old college friend's daughters before school.
Be Better
By YKIHAYHT. This year I resolve to not make a list of things I must do, but instead I just pledge to be better.
It
By Angela Youngblood. Sometimes I grip the steering wheel, holding tightly, praying, begging God, Jesus, some higher power out there, to help.
Chores Are a Real Chore
By Nicole Leigh Shaw. Being both entrepreneurial and lazy, I decided not to research other people’s methods, choosing instead to blaze an uninformed path to my own failure.
My First Child
By Jennifer Savage. I was moved to tears watching her.
For Your 2014 Consideration: The Pope
By Margot Page. So deep and so pure is my crush on Pope Francis that today I nominate him—the Popest with the Mostest, Pope Frantastic—as our kids’ next top role model.
Starting Again
By Kelly Sage. I always had a plan, a schedule detailing how I was going to create my new life.
The Gift of the New Year
By Andrea Condodemetraky. Every day that we wake up, we can think of it as a new year, a new beginning, a fresh start, another chance.